Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Real Time with Bill Maher” is returning to HBO this Friday, a week later than originally planned.
Maher delayed plans to bring back “Real Time” last week as the WGA and AMPTP resumed its negotiations — and rumblings of a resolution to the writers strike appeared to be in reach.
Now, with the writers strike over and scribes able to return to work as of Wednesday, “Real Time” will become the first late night show to make the return after the daypart went silent in May (as the strike began).
Other talk shows are expected to return in the coming weeks, as showrunners send out the word for staffers to return. “My writers and Real Time are back!
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